New York Quarterly
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The New York Quarterly is a popular contemporary American poetry magazine. Established by William M. Packard (1933-2002) in 1969, Rolling Stone
Magazine has called the NYQ "the most important poetry magazine in America."
assumed control of the magazine and currently is the acting Editor-In-Chief.
, W. H. Auden
, Anne Sexton
, Ted Kooser
, Franz Wright
, Karl Shapiro
, Macdonald Carey
, Richard Eberhart
, Michael McClure
, and Lyn Lifshin
. The magazine also regularly publishes work by emerging authors.
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
Magazine has called the NYQ "the most important poetry magazine in America."
History
After the death of William M. Packard in 2002, Raymond P. HammondRaymond P. Hammond
Raymond P. Hammond is an American poet, critic and editor of the New York Quarterly magazine since assuming control after the death of William M. Packard in 2002.Hammond was born August 31, 1964 in Roanoke, Virginia...
assumed control of the magazine and currently is the acting Editor-In-Chief.
Content
The NYQ is widely known for featuring poems and/or interviews with writers such as Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...
, W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
, Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967...
, Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006.-Early Life:...
, Franz Wright
Franz Wright
-Background:Wright graduated from Oberlin College in 1977. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category....
, Karl Shapiro
Karl Shapiro
Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.-Biography:...
, Macdonald Carey
Macdonald Carey
Edward Macdonald Carey was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of our Lives...
, Richard Eberhart
Richard Eberhart
Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total...
, Michael McClure
Michael McClure
Michael McClure is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums...
, and Lyn Lifshin
Lyn Lifshin
-Life:Born in Barre, VT, she was raised in Middlebury, VT. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from Syracuse University and a master's degree in English from the University of Vermont...
. The magazine also regularly publishes work by emerging authors.